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October 2nd, 2008

12:48 am

[personal profile] fairestcat: Wednesday, October 1, 2008


  • [livejournal.com profile] seekergeek: Oh dear lord, META - If we treat these tropes as the real life-changing events that they are and address all these things, our stories can easily balloon into monstrously huge things that eventually smother the poor overwhelmed writer. -
    (tags: fanfic writing)

  • xie_xie_xie: Preserving fandom history and heritage - I don't see fandom as just something I participate in or write fic in or consume. It's a structure, a community, a place with a history. Taking away these pieces of that history, making them so new fans can never find them, is like losing our past. -
    (tags: fandom history)

  • [livejournal.com profile] tielan: sudden thought on 'Eureka' characterisation - does a character/person of obvious non-white descent need to have some kind of connection to the diaspora of her descent in order to be 'a valid portrayal' of her racial type? -
    (tags: race eureka)

  • [livejournal.com profile] bluefall: meta-ish type stuff - I've recently noticed something kind of interesting. Every fandom has its own norms, of course - [...] But something that had never really occurred to me before is that each fandom has its own disclaimer culture, too. -
    (tags: culture xena jossverse sga)


  • only_gremo: I learn, because I am a fan - The impact of fan identities on learning     - One of the most fascinating things is the ever present wish of authors, artists, fans to improve. While we present ourselves as fans on IJ or LJ or some other site, we show our fannish interests and bridge the gap between passive consument of media and active subject with the desire to be productive. -
    (tags: poll results)

  • [livejournal.com profile] friendshipper: I think my standards have risen... - It's not the quality of the writing, it's the style. Over the last couple of years, my fanfic-to-books ratio has been heavily skewed in the fanfic direction. [...] But I wonder if it goes beyond that -- if fanfic in general has a particular style, just like science fiction, on the whole, has a different style from romance. -
    (tags: reading genre fanfic prowriting)